Microsoft expects a defeat in February NPD

[ils411]

Deviation59 said:

ils411 said:

Deviation59 said:

Willow said:
Lol, didnt VG have the 360 outselling the ps3 355k to 338k for the month of febuary?

Yup. Even when Microsoft acknowledges it, VGChartz doesn't seem to believe it when the PS3 outsells the Xbox 360 in America. You'd think that after the January NPD numbers (especially with Microsoft saying even then that they didn't expect to be back in the saddle until March) that VGchartz would give the PS3 a bit more credit. No such luck, however.

actually, if you remember, vgchartz tracked ps3 sales way below 360s sales last january and when npd numbers came out, figures were adjusted (i should know, its a pain updating my sales tracking. back tracking and checking what and where sales were updated). now, during february, we see the ps3s sales outselling the 360 ww on a weekly basis as tracked by vgchartz. so the statment form ms would actually justify vgchartz tracking the ps3 over the 360 during february on a ww basis.

so i dont understand how you could say that vgchartz isnt giving the ps3 "more credit"

Except, as far as I can tell, those numbers were never adjusted: http://vgchartz.com/hwtable.php?cons%5B%5D=PS3&cons%5B%5D=X360®%5B%5D=America&start=39453&end=39481

 

 

they did, since i just recently started tracking the ps3 sales per region, i have no old data for NA. but i do have old/unadjusted data for the ww sales...so lets extrapolate...

original sales figures ww (before adjustment-in cause your courious i had a thread for this...)

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19424

Period	Before	After	Difference
5-Jan-08	291,232	296,142	4,910
12-Jan-08	171,222	176,124	4,902
19-Jan-08	164,142	169,403	5,261
26-Jan-08	174,579	182,100	7,521
2-Feb-08	183,926	192,058	8,132
Total	985,101	1,015,827	30,726

now what we have here is ww sales, now i have the adjusted sales per region from jan 5 to feb 2.

NA	315,234
Jap	213,367
Others	487,226
Total	1,015,827

so toal jap and others is 700,593. so if we subtract this value from 1,015,827 we get 284,508 which should be the na numbers. but since na is 315,238 we subtract 284,508 from 315,238 and we get 30,726

so, na figures were adjusted by 30,726

yes, i know, its still far from npd figures which showed the ps3 outselling the 360 in the us during january but hey, figures were still adjusted by 30k.